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Good afternoon, Saeng Seong! This is your buddy Ren here, with breaking news!

[ Ren, you little shit, what in the seven hells have you been up to all this time? ] Around midnight last night, the apprehended assassins Khalid (22) and Fajr (22) escaped from their high-security confinement. Be wary, as even though one of the pair is injured, the two are highly skilled and dangerous when provoked. Should you spot either of them, do not approach. I repeat, Do Not Approach. Both suspects were last seen heading towards a soon to be opened district of the city.*

If either suspect is spotted, we urge the witness to contact the authorities.

That should be all for now, Saeng Seong. I'll do my best to stay on top of this, and give you up-to-date details as the story progresses.

[ At the bottom of the broadcast, there's an annotation that doesn't seem to have been written by the journalist. ]

* We apologize for taking so long to open a new district; many of our greenhouse crops have been failing, and our government felt it necessary to divert gathered energy to healing and replenishing the failed crops to prevent a food shortage.

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[He thinks he may know what one of said assassins looks like, but the other...]

can you give a physical description of the suspects

[Of course, his intentions may be... different from what Ren expects.]

[Someone else must have been watching this news bulletin, for not long after an anonymous text is posted, another responds in kind.]

i'd get in trouble with my boss if i posted images of them when they were brought in for questioning and detainment, but here are sketches of the pair.

prisoners #24634 & #24635

prisoner #24634, given named khalid (KAH leed), is a sarian male in his biological early twenties with dark violet hair and green eyes. his sister, prisoner #24635, given name fajr (fah jar), is a sarian woman of the same biological age. fajr is injured and at time of escape recovering from lower limb replacement.

[Yes Bucky, congrats. You caused her to get yet another deadly robot leg.]

Edited (I R GUUD WIFF NUMBAHS) 2014-09-29 04:24 (UTC)

[He hadn't expected that the injury he inflicted on the woman would lead to total loss of her limb, but he can't be surprised. His strength is that of a super soldier. He was made to cause harm. ~~He does wonder why an already-dangerous prisoner was given another powerful prosthetic, however.~~

He doesn't need to know about the woman's skills, given the fact that she's injured and he's already seen her tricks, but it might give him away if he were to only ask about the one.]

what are their capabilities [uh wait he doesn't want to seem like he's going after them] if fleeing isnt possible

[~~to be fair it was just a fiberglass limb they'd given her so they could get her around without a wheelchair but... insert mai grin here~~]

prisoner #24634 can transform into a large drake and breathe dark fire. prisoner #24635 has an alternative snake form and a master of poisons.

but you heard nothing from me.

Right. I didn't even know about these guys. Can you tell me any more about them?

[No comment on the new district thing. She's not sure she believes it but it's not like she can do otherwise.

It's hard to organize any sort of infiltration when more than half the population is eight feet tall or more...Even within her element, she's out of it...]

Most of what we know of them in the newsroom was shared, however credible sources believe that these two individuals were the two that were captured by volunteers two months previously.

So you mean the graffiti artists we were asked to catch? How did you get from that to attempted assassination?

[Not that she actually needs to ask. It's a stupid question to ask of the people pulling the strings (which this person could possibly be. Who among their number would make that leap of logic?) - the public answer will invariably be "none of your business" or "we questioned them", while the truth is nearly always "it's convenient for us for you to hate them".]

Edited (herp derp I am dumb for failing to include that part of her thought process) 2014-10-03 00:56 (UTC)

It isn't simply their more current actions were in its entirety, but rather what they have done in the past. They were wanted people long before the first wave of guests arrived for the assassination of the CEO of Enkindle Ergonomics and lead researcher of the Mist Origins, who Cyntia later took over for upon their deaths.

Edited 2014-10-05 06:47 (UTC)

So let me get this straight. Two people wanted for murder, in a place where nobody dies so nobody forgets, came back and got caught because they just HAD to write cryptic messages on the walls. Instead of sending someone with a cleaner record.

Someone in this equation has faulty wiring.

First let me correct you: people CAN die if they are murdered, but disease and natural causes cannot.

We're also more than certain that the two captured were only guarding those who were writing cryptic messages, using the same methods in order to take the fall for their comrades.

That's what I meant - nobody dies so it can't just get lost in the generations.

Sounds noble of them. Guess those messages were more important than they looked.

[The fact that they were actually in English, she's glossing over. No need to say something like that and make them paranoid of their beloved "guests". That would just put people in danger.]

That doesn't mean memories do not fade in time. Some can recall, others find that bits and pieces are hard to remember. Some have even considered that a kind of death, but of the mind.

Maybe to them. Kind of freaked me out seeing them at night on my walks home to be honest.

Yeah, I guess you guys don't get graffiti that much.

[Okay yes, this is very definitely a native at least, if not someone important. She's not sure who they are and if they know who she is so she's going to play it absolutely safe.]

[He neither knows how to anon nor cares, soooo...]

Anything else we should know about these guys, other than apparently being dangerous?

prisoners #24634 & #24635
prisoner #24634, given named khalid (KAH leed), is a sarian male in his biological early twenties with dark violet hair and green eyes. his sister, prisoner #24635, given name fajr (fah jar), is a sarian woman of the same biological age. fajr is injured and at time of escape recovering from lower limb replacement.

Limb replacement?

[Rather a foreign idea to him]

Let me take it from here, fellow anon!

When a doctor finds a limb irreparable in this world they operate to remove it before the dead tissue leaks a toxin into the blood and causes damage to the rest of the body or worse. Most patients find biomedical replacements, though I doubt whatever doctor treated prisoner #24635 was given much an opportunity to give them one that fit...

So most likely, it's not much help to them.

Exactly, though with over one hundred years of experience I doubt that will slow them down much.

They've been at it that long?

That was when the city officials exiled the members of Rangar, so...yes.

I'm a bit behind on my history. These guys are affiliated with that group?

Yes.

Allow me to shed a little more light on this subject.

The escapees in question were among the first of those who had shown signs of Miasma Absorption, and some of the first to join Rangar's ranks. At first, the sect's goals were of peaceful protest against policies of the city-state's rulers that they who had been touched by the death goddess be subjected to testing to learn what their abilities were truly capable of. As one of the members of that team, I was assigned to observe what would become two of the deadliest members of their small army.

The two were cooperative at first, wanting to learn more about their newfound powers after their friend had a rather... negative reaction and lost control. However once our former head of research and the CEO called for more... strenuous testing, they used an opportunity to their abilities and murder them both in cold blood before escaping the city. This led to the banishment of any others with the same power, and any sympathizers.

It was dark times, and many still hold the same prejudices.

So...a classic misuse of power, basically.

[Cu Chulainn is left scratching his head at the announcement.]

What's an assassin? Why are they dangerous?

[Oh. Crud, how do you talk to kids again?] Well... an assassin is a kind of person that's good at sneaking around. They're also tough fighters, and know how to read a person to figure out their weak spots.

They're usually not very nice people, and they're very good at hurting others.

[Nailed it??]

[He nods.]

But I'm a hero too. I'm strong! Why do I have to hide from them?

[Here's a stubborn one.]

[ He hesitates, before answering.

... Mai is going to kill him. ] Well... when an assassin fights you and wins, you don't ever get up again. Even a hero can be caught off-guard, and that's what someone that fights like they do take advantage of.

[ Kids getting hurt - a big no, in his book. ] My source told me that those two have been learning how to do what they do for a very long time, and they're very, very good at it.

...Oh.

[He doesn't like to admit that there's things stronger than he is, but the description does give him shivers down his spine.]

Then...do we have any heroes who can fight them?

[ He looks thoughtful for a moment, thinking over what to say. ] You know, we might!

[ Grinning now, like he's just had a brilliant idea. ] I'll hit up Irene - she's got access to records about everyone in the city. There might be a couple of you guys that can hold their own long enough for help to show up.

[ Now he has to hope that the city's historian will give him the time of day. ]

[.......No.]

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Edited 2014-10-07 08:53 (UTC)

[ Awwww, come on! ]

[ ((´д｀)) ]

Edited 2014-10-07 08:54 (UTC)

[ Still no. ]

[ 且_(✾꒡ .̮ ꒡✾ ) ]

[ He'll buy you dinner. ]

[ m(_ _)m please? ]

[ Let her think about it... (;¬_¬) ]

[ Still no! ]

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[ ｡･ﾟﾟ･(>д<)･ﾟﾟ･｡ ]

Really? Awesome!

[He bounces around in his seat.]

Hurry up! I wanna see those heroes!

What part of the city is this district in?

[ ... wait, he doesn't want to make it sound like he wants to investigate. ] Just so we know what part of town to avoid.

[ Yeah. Sure. ]

On the outskirts of District 1. It will be hard to avoid it as that is where your housing currently is, hence why we strongly advice caution.

[ Oh. That's... not that far away at all. He could walk there without much effort. ] Thanks. Is there anything else I should know about them?

Everything else we know about them has been openly shared. You should be able to find the information you're seeking from the other threads.

[ He figured, but it didn't hurt to ask. ] All right. I'll be careful.

[ Meaning, he might want to bring some of the potions he'd had in his pockets when he was brought here with him. ]

[And someone gets a glimpse of this. Hmm. HMMM. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Or something. Naturally as the resident soon-to-be-popular idol he needs to keep an eye on this...]

[Kit can't really think of anything to say to this message that someone else hasn't already said. She is, however, putting her developing reading skills to good use and paying very close attention to everything being discussed. And writing down some notes for later in a paper notebook that she keeps safely in the Forever Bag. Assuming others can read her childish handwriting, they could come in useful later...]

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